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标题：Arogenate (pretyrosine) is an obligatory intermediate of L-tyrosine biosynthesis: confirmation in a microbial mutant
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作者：A M Fazel ; J R Bowen ; R A Jensen 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1980
卷号：77
期号：3
页码：1270-1273
DOI：10.1073/pnas.77.3.1270
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Wild-type Brevibacterium flavum has been shown to possess arogenate dehydrogenase activity and to lack prephenate dehydrogenase, thereby providing presumptive evidence that arogenate (previously named "pretyrosine") is an obligatory intermediate of L-tyrosine biosynthesis. A similar enzymological pattern has been discerned in extracts made from wild-type cultures of various species of cyanobacteria. Application of rigorous molecular genetic criteria in confirmation of the exclusive role of arogenate in L-tyrosine synthesis was made possible by the isolation of an auxotrophic mutant exhibiting a nutritional requirement for L-tyrosine. The mutant was found to lack activity for arogenate dehydrogenase and to accumulate substantial amounts of arogenate behind the mutant block during starvation for L-tyrosine.